Gunnison

Snowpack

Crested Butte Avalanche Center · Mar 7, 2014 · Gunnison

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Weather

Weather: Snowing S3; Calm winds; warm temps

Snowpack

Snowpack/Avalanches: Found about 15cm of new snow by about 1200 today. Light and fluffy in am despite warm temps. Hand Shear and Tilt Tests showed moderate strength bonding, but skiing pitches around 40* resulted in slow running sluffing of the new snow, gauging down into the low density buried old surface snow. Hand shear tests also showed hard but planar results on a layer 50cm down of 1F snow, but only instabilities seen throughout morning were predictable and manageable sluffing of the new snow.